Upcoming NBA Live 09 Community Event
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Tomorrow the 26th I will be up at EA Canada’s Burnaby studio for the NBA Live 09 Community Event. Time will be had with the game and producers. This is still early in the development process so the opportunity is there for the feedback given to be acted on. Last year the early event proved to be very beneficial which led to the desire to hold it once again under similar circumstances. You can actually look back to that event as the first sign of what has since materialized with EA actively pursuing stronger community involvement.
Compared to the recent football event the time with the game will be much more limited. Despite this it should be enough to get a good feel for the direction of the game and to pass along thoughts and suggestions to the producers. To my knowledge the only thing I will not be able to discuss afterwards will be the feature being touted by EA as “ground-breaking” that will “change the way sports games are made”. That won’t be revealed until E3 (probably EA’s press conference on July 14th).
While I’d like to hold another live blog the more limited exposure to the game may prevent that from being a good use of time. In that case look for a detailed report on the game to come late Thursday night or Friday, however I may be able to drop some preliminary thoughts prior to that.
As always feel free to leave questions or suggestions in the comments. While I can’t guarantee I will be able to address them I do read them and keep them under consideration while at the events.
June 25, 2008 at 7:23 am
kool i hope we can get some more info on the game
June 25, 2008 at 7:59 am
Thanks for all the hard work Pasta!!
June 25, 2008 at 8:05 am
NBA 2K9 nuff said..
June 25, 2008 at 8:18 am
Could you please check to see if players can export draft classes from March Madness into NBA Live? IMO their logic for not having this in has been faulty at best.
Also, can you ask about what they will be doing to improve online connection/stability for both of their basketball titles?
Thank you.
June 25, 2008 at 8:26 am
enough with the 2k please im sick of you guys saying 2k the greatest live sucks.2k had just the same amout of flaws than live.
June 25, 2008 at 8:39 am
ok 2k is good and it has problems live is good and it has problems its really not a fact to say which one is better people have their own opinions and they can play their own games leave it at that
June 25, 2008 at 8:43 am
Pasta,
I’m sure you would have already but please be sure to give your feedback on the animations this year.. that’s one area I feel 2k kills Live in is fluid animations that look natural.
Oh.. and also please comment if they fixed the opening game tip off animations (i’m assuming you know the ugly opening tip animations i’m referring to in 08)
thanks!
June 25, 2008 at 8:49 am
[quote comment="26580"]enough with the 2k please im sick of you guys saying 2k the greatest live sucks.2k had just the same amout of flaws than live.[/quote]
stop crying he didnt say anything bashing live, stop being a baby and just make ur comment and read over his goodness. Oh 2K9 will be nice…
June 25, 2008 at 8:51 am
They really need to fix the opening tip off and stop having them look like robots playing bball and make it look more fluid then it would b an ok game.
June 25, 2008 at 9:16 am
Who cares. Either way 2k sports will be owned by EA by the time either of these two games drop. 2k is dead people. EA will own both franchises and will make 100% of the profits off nimrods like those posting here who think there still is a care as to which basketball game is better.
June 25, 2008 at 9:57 am
timothy Daley Ea is probably not going to end up getting 2k….well at least by the time the games drop. 2k is not budging at all right now and they might not even get rid of there company. unless ea puts up more or bungie buys 2k. one thing i dont understand is why ea buys everyone out, they cant compete with 2k sports cause 2k makes better football and basketball games, but ea knows this so they just buy them out. alot of people care man. 2k isnt going to be dead its take two.
June 25, 2008 at 10:15 am
will this game finally catch up to or hopefully surpass the 2K series, which has been resting on its laurels the past couple of years? in fact, if you ask me…the 2K series actually took a step back last year (how could the remove the halftime show…that was one of the coolest things about the game…especially with the halftime awards from kenny smith)…
June 25, 2008 at 10:50 am
Hey Pasta
can you tell em to fix the lighitng so arenas wont look like the Staples Center when the Lakers play????
June 25, 2008 at 3:05 pm
I just want to know how the rebounding and defenses are this year?
June 25, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Pasta, I’m curious to know whether or not the game has “signature” style jump shots, similar to 2K’s style. I’m not talking about the “go to moves” that only certain players have, but more specifically, does each player have their own style, or are the majrority of players still using the same whacky default shot? Thanks.
June 26, 2008 at 7:07 am
LIVE IS GOING TO BE GREAT THIS YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 26, 2008 at 9:04 am
i know in the nba 09 blogs one of the producers said their would be no superstar mode, but hten ign has a hands on and says their is a superstar mode. Pasta can u please check to see if they have a superstar mode
June 26, 2008 at 10:32 am
NO MORE GLITCHES ON ONLINE PLAT PLEASEEE
Pastpadre notify them about t
he glitrching problems on nba live 08
June 26, 2008 at 10:41 am
pastapadre can you please ask them what the fiba teams are,
and hopefully theres Philippines
June 26, 2008 at 9:45 pm
pasta dey need 2 make da players ratings better like da lowest ratn shud be a 75 no nba player shud be rated a 60 come on and da player shud play like der stats in real life 2 gime more feal for the games please take note of this and tell the ppl makn nba live 09 thnx if u can
June 27, 2008 at 12:01 am
make brandon roy a better slasher michael redd kevin martin and peja stojakovic a better shooter baron davis and deron williams better handles shooting and dunking thnx in addvance and if u can please send this 2 brian ulrich
June 27, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Now that I’ve seen the terrible playstation 1 type graphics, please double check and make sure they didn’t actually put up screen shots of nba live 2000 in the gallery link you posted. Those graphics are AWFUL. Lots of big head, skinny body syndrome going on there. Hopefully it will be dealt with by release time.
July 3, 2008 at 6:03 am
Can you guys please bring back the multiplayer dynasty mode and why cant I unlock the players sneakers I would like to switch it up from time to time